Denied Burial In Disputed Cemetery
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Box intended to hold snyder co. woman's coffin taken from grave and earth replaced
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Selinsgrove Pa, April 17 - Elizabeth Geise, and aged blind woman who lived in Kratzerville this county, was buried today notwithstanding the fact that the ---------- refused sepulcher in her family burying ground.
The Lutheran and Reformed congregation of Kratzerville each build a handsome ---- edifice, although formerly they worshiped in the Union church.
After the separation each congregation claimed the right to to bury its dead in the old cemetery and the matter has been one of stern contention. It is declared that members of the Reformed congregation were seen in the center late Saturday night with shovels and on Sunday morning the ---- revealed the fact that rough ----- which had been placed in the grave newly made for Mrs Geises body had been taken out, thrown into the public street, the grave filled up and the gateway to the cemetery chained and locked.
Today anew grave was dug in the Lutheran Cemetery and the body interred. It is said legal proceedings will be instituted in a few days.
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Box intended to hold snyder co. woman's coffin taken from grave and earth replaced
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Selinsgrove Pa, April 17 - Elizabeth Geise, and aged blind woman who lived in Kratzerville this county, was buried today notwithstanding the fact that the ---------- refused sepulcher in her family burying ground.
The Lutheran and Reformed congregation of Kratzerville each build a handsome ---- edifice, although formerly they worshiped in the Union church.
After the separation each congregation claimed the right to to bury its dead in the old cemetery and the matter has been one of stern contention. It is declared that members of the Reformed congregation were seen in the center late Saturday night with shovels and on Sunday morning the ---- revealed the fact that rough ----- which had been placed in the grave newly made for Mrs Geises body had been taken out, thrown into the public street, the grave filled up and the gateway to the cemetery chained and locked.
Today anew grave was dug in the Lutheran Cemetery and the body interred. It is said legal proceedings will be instituted in a few days.
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